BOOOM.

The beam of destruction topples trees, ignites grass, boils away water, and leaves a gigantic crater where it hits.

It's also aimed - not directly at Kagome, but pretty darn close.

Kagome is lucky, in that she is not incinerated. Instead, she's thrown by the shockwave, and hits her head. Hard.

Shippo is unscathed. Kagome seems to be alive, so tries to wake her. He really does. She doesn't wake up, though, and he can't possibly move her, so...

He runs away and hides in the grass.

Not noticing Shippo, Manten comes through the glass to find where Kagome landed.

"Hmph. Just the girl."

And he blushes...

"She's beautiful..."

And, thoughts full of horrible plans, he mounts his thundercloud and flies off - carrying Kagome, as the blush turns into a smirk.

Shippo watches them fly off.

The girl saved his life, when he was in danger. He ran away and saved himself, when she was. He doesn't know what he could have done, but - she only got involved because of him, and now - 

He can't just leave her. On the other hand, he clearly doesn't have the strength to rescue her himself. That means - well. She braved scarier for him, didn't she. 

He runs back the way he came, to where he left Inuyasha.

Myoga is pulling furiously on the spell scroll.

"It's no use, Master Inuyasha. It won't budge."

"Damn that midget fox!" Inuyasha's attempts to get his hands out from under the statue aren't making any progress, either.

And the fox comes back!

"Hey! I'm willing to let you up, on one condition! You have to promise not to hit me any more, okay?"

"Huh, you again?" He pauses. "Where's Kagome?"

"Will you promise, or not?"

"Fine, fine, I promise."

Shippo removes the spell scroll, and the stone statue turns back into something tiny that he can stick in his pocket. "Now, listen carefully -"

BONK. BONKBONKBONKBONKBONK.

Then he'll dangle Shippo upside-down and shake him to see what falls out of his pockets.

"So, where'd you put those shards of the jewel..."

"But you promised!" cries Shippo.

The bottle of jewel shards falls out of his pocket and onto the ground with a small clink.

Then Inuyasha will collect it!

"Oh good, they're safe." Important lesson, kid: the set of people you can trust to keep their word is empty.

"Nevermind that! Kagome's been kidnapped by one of the Thunder Brothers!"

"The 'Thunder Brothers'. The ones you wanted revenge on for your father?"

He gives Shippo a sniff. "You don't look like someone who's won the vengeance he craved..."

"You just sat there and watched Kagome being carried off, didn't you?"

Okay yes but

"Shut up!! Hurry up and rescue her, she's your woman!"

"My what?"

(His flinch involves shoving Shippo down into the ground moderately hard.)

"It's not like that!"

" - ow! Hey! Are you gonna save her or not?!"

"Well, I might help you get revenge," he says with a sniff. "If you apologized. Enough. And then I guess she'd be saved, too."

He is DOING this IDIOT a FAVOR, why should he have to beg to get him to do what he was ALREADY GOING TO -

"Shippo," says Myoga, hopping over to him, "Be the mature one, and do as he says. Just this once."